dreamergirl

Those seem like a bunch of good girls. You gotta love friends; they always have an impact on you.
I was reading through some of my old journals from High School and it was interesting to hear the things that I said about my friends back then, and what they said about me.
One quote, from my cousin Matt, has to be one of the three best compliments I've ever gotten in my life (i'm embarrased to admit that I'd forgotten it)

"You gave me a mind, or at least showed me how to use it".
He told me that the year after he graduated High School, when I was a Senior.
I'm really proud of that guy; he's starting college in January, having finally decided its what he wants to do after all, and is really gearing up to make something of himself.
There were times when people told me to just give up on him, when parts of ME were telling me to do the same; but he was family, and I just couldn't do it. So, I kept having faith that he'd pull himself up by the bootstraps eventually; and now it looks like he has.
I am REALLY proud of that guy

i would so do the same thing if i had daughters, of course i'd probably also be the most annoyingly over-protective father imaginable and they'd undoubtedly hate me for it

aye, this cat is one of the many in the neighborhood who comes shuffling in and out of my open door when i'm painting, sits down, stares at me (like in the picture) for a while, and then toddles off again. sometiems, i would give anything to read the minds of these strange creatures. . .

and to know. . . why in the rhubarb, of all places?